Outline your pipedream alt-career

[Wolveryeti]

What career would you pursue if you had your time again (or potentially as a career change).

For me it would be a network/IRL pen tester - network security and picking locks / blagging.

Completely unrealistic as kids etc. Life as a boring civil servant will have to suffice...

 

[Silas Loom]

Boring civil servant.

 

[Hollis]

Boring civil servant.

Mind-numbing bureacracy, good pension and usually a good canteen

 

[Silas Loom]

Mind-numbing bureacracy, good pension and usually a good canteen

It’s the red ink pad and rubber stamps saying “denied” and “rejected” and “refused” that I really want.

 

[furluxor]

Hostage negotiator or firefighter or forensic investigator

 

[JoeyBoy]

billionaire

 

[Saul Goodman]

Electronics engineer. I'd have invented lots of stuff, then built prototypes that I'd throw in a drawer and forget about, only to be found again years later. Kinda like I'm doing now, only I'd be getting paid for it.

 

[May Kasahara]

Dancer.

 

[Elpenor]

I can’t really imagine doing anything else

 

[nottsgirl]

I’d quite like to own my own business.

 

[ska invita]

It’s the red ink pad and rubber stamps saying “denied” and “rejected” and “refused” that I really want.

Papers, Please - Play Online on Flash Museum 🕹️

flashmuseum.org

meant to be an amazing game

Papers, Please - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

" The game was recognized as one of the greatest video games ever made along with various awards and nominations from the Independent Games Festival, Game Developers Choice Awards, and BAFTA Video Games Awards, and was named by Wired and The New Yorker as one of the top games of 2013. By its tenth anniversary, Papers, Please had sold more than five million copies"

all about the psychology of bureaucratic rejecting and allowing

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

What career would you pursue if you had your time again (or potentially as a career change).

For me it would be a network/IRL pen tester - network security and picking locks / blagging.

Completely unrealistic as kids etc. Life as a boring civil servant will have to suffice...

Can advise against that.
Me. Skateboarder if I had the chance not to do the above.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Dancer.

Or this

 

[Silas Loom]

Papers, Please - Play Online on Flash Museum 🕹️

flashmuseum.org

meant to be an amazing game

Papers, Please - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

" The game was recognized as one of the greatest video games ever made along with various awards and nominations from the Independent Games Festival, Game Developers Choice Awards, and BAFTA Video Games Awards, and was named by Wired and The New Yorker as one of the top games of 2013. By its tenth anniversary, Papers, Please had sold more than five million copies"

all about the psychology of bureaucratic rejecting and allowing

Played it, loved it. My youngest was obsessed with it, too.

 

[A380]

Astronaut / cosmonaut.

 

[JimW]

Roving water quality sampler and river warden in Yunnan.

 

[Gromit]

In alternate realities I would have become either an electronic engineer, video games designer, software engineer or ice hockey player. All were possible forks in a road.

Instead I became a civil servant. Hmm.
Then a train driver.

Dream jobs though:

Superstar DJ (here we go)
Successful Stand up comedian
Food critic
Travel writer

I'm hoping my fiction writing side hobby might actually supplement my income one day.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Trust fund nepo-baby and dilettante

 

[Looby]

Spy/secret government stuff. I wouldn’t really want to be an active agent because I’m a chicken, but I’d quite like to do the back office admin shit. Think Chloe from 24.

Or just very rich with no job like above because I’m expensive and I don’t really like having any job even if I like the job.

 

[mx wcfc]

Mind-numbing bureacracy, good pension and usually a good canteen

I should have stuck to being a civil servant, simply for the pension.

ideally, I'd have been a footballer, or musician.

more realistically, anything that didn't involve sitting in an office for over 40 years.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Can advise against that.
Me. Skateboarder if I had the chance not to do the above.

You have done it and hated it?

 

[Wolveryeti]

more realistically, anything that didn't involve sitting in an office for over 40 years.

Strong cosign, though I would probably then be moaning about life on the road and having to work outside in all weathers

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

You have done it and hated it?

Correct.

 

[iona]

One of those scientists that get to give MDMA to octopuses

 

[Saul Goodman]

I should have stuck to being a civil servant, simply for the pension.

ideally, I'd have been a footballer, or musician.

more realistically, anything that didn't involve sitting in an office for over 40 years.

Did they not even let you home for Christmas?

 

[mx wcfc]

I did strongly consider going into the pub game when I was doing part time bar work, but the next step up the ladder was becoming an assistant manager, and the assistant manager in the pub where I was working was on a 60 hour week, at an hourly rate of less than us part timers.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Train driver, working up the ladder so I could eventually drive steam engines on the main line. Being able to open the regulator and drive Tornado out of somewhere like York station is about the coolest thing I can think of.

 

[Eivets Rednow]

Occult practitioner: skilled in the theory and practice of the shadow world to affect reality. Probably not too dissimilar from my current job in a university.

 

[kebabking]

I think I'd have liked to have worked in forestry, or ecology of peatlands, or being a countryside ranger in the Lakes or whatever.

The depressing thing is that I follow some of these people on twitter/blue sky or meet them while I'm out and about, think 'yeah, I'd love to do that, I'm still young and fit enough to do it, I could even go back to uni to study and get the quals', and they look at me like I'm this undead thing emerging from a neolithic tomb...

 

[newme]

Anything that involves not having to have a career or as short as possible, so inventor of something boring that makes enough to live on? And does involve being allowed to live inside and eat food and receive reasonable healthcare and the various mod cons